[DAWN] An Indian court on Tuesday found a Bangladeshi man guilty of raping an elderly nun in a crime that sparked an outpouring of anger at persistently high levels of sexual assault in the country.
The 71-year-old nun needed surgery after the brutal attack in 2015, when a gang of robbers broke into the convent school where she lived in the eastern state of West Bengal.
A court in the state capital Kolkata found Nazrul Islam guilty of rape and attempted murder, among other offences.
"It was a shameful act," additional judge Kumkum Singha told the packed City Sessions Court.
Singha said Nazrul Islam acted alone in raping the nun, adding that five others enjugged You have the right to remain silent... for their involvement were charged with offences unrelated to the sexual assault.
Islam will be sentenced on Wednesday.
The nun, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was attacked after the robbers ransacked the Convent of Jesus and Mary in Ranaghat and stole cash and other items. A holy scripture was also torn and a statue of Jesus was broken.
The assault was the latest in a string of high-profile rapes in India, and prompted much soul-searching as priests and schoolgirls erupted into the streets demanding justice for the "inhuman" crime.
Supporters closed shops, shuttered schools and held candlelit vigils outside the hospital where the nun underwent surgery for injuries suffered during the attack.
The police came under fire for perceived inaction after 10 men were detained but no arrests made, despite the faces of some attackers being captured on CCTV footage. It took three months before the main accused was arrested.
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[DAWN] A one-time millionairess dubbed the "Black Widow", who tricked elderly lovers into drinking cyanide and then pocketed millions in insurance payouts and inheritance, was sentenced to death in Japan on Tuesday. I think I used to be married to her.
Kyoto District Court condemned Chisako Kakehi, 70, to the gallows for the murder of three men ─ including a husband ─ and for the attempted murder of another, ending a high-profile case that has gripped the country. At the time I thought it was just her cooking...
Kakehi became notorious after using poison to dispatch a number of elderly men she was involved with, drawing comparisons with the spider that kills its mate after copulation.
"The accused made the victims drink a cyanide compound with a murderous intention in all four cases," Judge Ayako Nakagawa told the court, according to public broadcaster NHK.
"The cases were well prepared in advance. They were cunning and malicious. I have no choice but to impose the ultimate penalty."
Nakagawa rejected defence lawyers' arguments that Kakehi was not criminally liable because she was suffering from dementia.
More than 560 people queued for 51 seats in the courtroom to witness the outcome of the marathon trial, which lasted 135 days.
It was the second-longest court case involving a jury since Japan introduced a joint judge-jury system in 2009.
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...while Bowe Bergdahl skates, due to a judge who doesn't like Trump. That's great. That's just fucking great, man...
[Click2Houston] Channel 2 Investigates obtained law enforcement documents revealing Devin Kelley escaped from a behavioral center in New Mexico a little more than five years before Sunday’s deadly rampage in Sutherland Springs.
The incident report, filed by the El Paso Police Department, states Kelley was picked up at a bus terminal in downtown El Paso before midnight on the evening of June 7, 2012. The report states two officers were dispatched to the terminal to look into a missing-person report.
When they arrived, the two officers learned Kelley had escaped from Peak Behavioral Health Services, a mental health facility in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, that has a dedicated unit for service members and veterans.
Xavier Alvarez, who was the director of military affairs for Peak Behavioral Health at the time, told the officers on scene that Kelley, who was 21 years old at the time, had “suffered from mental disorders and had plans to run to from Peak Behavioral Health Services” by purchasing a bus ticket out of state.
NBC News spoke with Alvarez, who according to the police report, said he informed officers that Kelley “was a danger to himself and others as he had already been caught sneaking firearms onto Holloman Air Force base,” located approximately 100 miles from the bus terminal. The report further states that Kelley “was attempting to carry out death threats” he had made on his military superiors.
Alvarez called Sunland Park and El Paso police and El Paso police created a perimeter around the Greyhound station.
Alvarez sat there in the dark, watching for Kelley's arrival. He saw a taxicab pull up and he crept over to it; when it pulled away, he and Kelley were "eye to eye."
"Because he made a reaction as if he was going to run, I quickly restrained him. He put up no fight. He laid on the ground and police were there in seconds," Alvarez said.
He noted Kelley was wet.
"He thought he was going to be tracked and he went through the river to cover these tracks."
"He was very quiet, but he did mention that given the opportunity he would try to go for the [officers'] guns," Alvarez said.
When he went back to the facility, Alvarez told NBC News Kelley was very docile. He was there only a couple of weeks before the military picked him up for his court-martial.
[DAWN] South Korea is negotiating with the United States to buy nuclear-powered submarines to guard against threats from Pyongyang, local reports said on Tuesday, as President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... said Seoul would buy "billions of dollars" of US weapons.
Nuclear-powered submarines can stay submerged for months, giving them a far greater range than their diesel-powered counterparts, and are also crucial to any seaborne nuclear deterrent.
Such a purchase would redraw the balance of power in northeast Asia and could trigger a regional arms race.
Japan, another US ally, does not have nuclear-powered submarines and is barred from having a military under its post-World War II pacifist constitution.
And while China's increasingly powerful navy does include them in its fleet, Beijing would undoubtedly be infuriated by any such acquisition by Seoul.
After a summit in South Korea with his counterpart Moon Jae-In, Trump on Tuesday said Seoul would be buying a large amount of US weapons "whether it's planes, whether it's missiles, no matter what it is".
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Beijing would undoubtedly be infuriated by any such acquisition by Seoul.
Just tell those nice fellas in Beijing that none of it has to happen if Kim Il Fatty slips in the shower one afternoon and whoever takes over asks us to pick up the nukes, no questions asked.
So simple, yet so tough for Beijing.
Mike
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Chinese, and probably the rest of us, will be so sorry when Japan rearms.
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I'm assuming we're talking about used nuke boats; Giving them a brand new current tech boat would place the classified stuff out of reach where anybody might look at it.
I don't know why they wouldn't prefer diesel electrics or AIP, unless the SK's are gaming the notion of shooting up the South China Sea in case of a war. Diesels and AIPs are essentially portable mine fields in an open conflict; they have to be prepositioned for area denial. If they try to run far at speed they'll show up on somebody's sonar net, leading to a hunter attack.
A nuke boat's chief asset is the ability to run long, hard, and deep to reach a far target at speed. Unless you're talking about boomers circling in deep water (and that implies SK ICBM's or cruise missiles), I can't see the utility, unless you're thinking about having a shootout with China (or possibly Japan).
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Just tell those nice fellas in Beijing that none of it has to happen if Kim Il Fatty slips in the shower one afternoon and whoever takes over asks us to pick up the nukes, no questions asked.
But they love their little dog.
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Just tell those nice fellas in Beijing that none of it has to happen if Kim Il Fatty slips in the shower one afternoon and whoever takes over asks us to pick up the nukes, no questions asked.
This is the value proposition that Trump is selling. Deal with Pudge's nukes one way or another. Otherwise, we help SKor and Japan upgrade their war-making abilities.
[DAWN] The Supreme Court on Tuesday concluded that denying an asset or defending a trust deed ‐ supposedly written in 2005 in a font that became commercially available in 2007 ‐ was below the dignity and decorum of the office of the prime minister. Shades of Dan Rather!
The court could not have shut its eyes when an asset, arising out of "Iqama" (work permit), surfaced during the investigation of the Panama Papers case, especially since a much higher level of integrity was expected from the holder of the highest elected office in the land, the apex court said, apparently answering the rhetorical question posed by ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts... in nearly every public speech since his disqualification.
These observations came in a detailed 23-page judgement, authored by Justice Ejaz Afzal Khan, explaining the reasons why a five-judge Supreme Court bench had rejected a number of review petitions instituted against the July 28 verdict disqualifying Nawaz Sharif.
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An Israeli startup has sued Apple Inc, accusing the iPhone maker of copying its patented smartphone camera technology.
Tel Aviv-based Corephotonics Ltd filed its patent infringement case against Apple in federal court in San Jose, California, on Monday.
Corephotonics, which has raised $50 million from several high-profile venture capital firms and other investors, said its patented dual camera technology for mobile devices was incorporated by Apple in the iPhone 7 Plus and iPhone 8 Plus without its authorization.
Half-rations for everyone until further notice. Conjugal visits for transgenders only. BX permanently shuttered. Ear lobe expanders no longer authorized. Additional measures as deemed necessary by the commandant.
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But on Tuesday, the school made a jolting announcement. The person responsible for the racist messages, the academy said, was, in fact, one of the cadet candidates who reported being targeted by them.
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We need to start labeling such BS as real hate crime as that is precisely what it is. A black person targeting whites with this BS is no different than if this had actually taken place. Convict and sentence exactly how you would if this had actually happen and we'll this crap shut down pretty damn quick
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When I watched Lt. Gen. Silveria deliver his initial diatribe, my only thought was that it was a knee-jerk rather than considered reaction.
He bought into the meme,and I am sure it was noticed. Too bad.
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They should be prosecuted as if it were a real hate crime since the chill sent through the community threatened by the hoax is identical to that of a real hate crime.
[Daily Mail] Projects are shelved, film releases cancelled, sets shuttered, studios threatened, the Oscars rattled -- this is the chaos confronting Hollywood following sex scandals that have brought down power players like Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey and Brett Ratner.
In the month since The New Yorker and The New York Times published allegations of serial predatory behavior by producer Weinstein -- some 100 women have now accused him of misconduct ranging from harassment to rape -- people who said they had been victimized have felt emboldened to voice allegations against men who had been seen as untouchable.
Spacey, a two-time Oscar winner, and Ratner, a blockbuster director, have also been accused of sexual transgressions, while other actors, managers and agents are in the hot seat as well.
"Who's next?" the Los Angeles Times asked on Sunday.
"There's been scandals in Hollywood since the silent movie age but it was one person or one incident," said Tim Gray, an editor at the entertainment trade magazine Variety.
"I've been at Variety for 30 years, I've never seen something like this," he said.
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Who will be next? NYT's rips David Boies over betrayal for secretly helping Weinstein:
As Farrow reports about Black Cube, an investigative outfit run largely by former Israeli intelligence agents: "Boies personally signed the contract directing Black Cube to attempt to uncover information that would stop the publication of a Times story about Weinstein's abuses, while his firm was also representing the Times, including in a libel case."
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Click2Houston] Channel 2 Investigates obtained law enforcement documents revealing Devin Kelley escaped from a behavioral center in New Mexico a little more than five years before Sunday’s deadly rampage in Sutherland Springs. 
... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts...
